Sam Fletcher
STRENGTHS: Accumulation, Courage, Inside game, tackling, clean hands, clearances IMPROVEMENTS: Kicking, scoreboard impact SUMMARY: Injury did not help the AFL Academy member who was one of the shock omissions from a National Draft Combine invitation. Dandenong generally plays a team-oriented game where not too many midfielders win truckloads of the ball, but Fletcher’s inside presence […]
Mitchell Riordan
STRENGTHS: Inside game, endurance, speed, strength, vertical jump IMPROVEMENTS: Durability, accumulation SUMMARY: Mitch Riordan would love to have 2018 again after his year – including his National Under 18 Championships campaign – was affected by injury. Returning to the Stingrays late in the year, Riordan joined Sam Fletcher as vital inclusions on the inside, […]
Thomas Matthews
STRENGTHS: Overhead marking, kicking, vision, decision making, class, tackling IMPROVEMENTS: Endurance, inside game SUMMARY: Tom Matthews is a player who has been a highly rated prospect in northern Australia for some time and yet looms as an underrated prospect heading into the National AFL Draft. The knocks on him are his endurance – he […]
Mihail Lochowiak
AFTER playing multiple roles for South Australia last year at the National Under-18 Championships, Lochowiak became a consistent forward in 2019, booting 43.20 for Sturt’s Reserves side in a big year – including a bag of nine shortly after a two-game stint at League level. He averaged 12.8 disposals and 4.1 marks per game in […]
